The media and assorted opponents are hyping the leftist rallies in Tel Aviv expressing opposition to judicial reform efforts by the new Israeli governments as being unprecedented.
They’re not.
While Israel is a small country, getting 100,000 protesters to come and assail the government, on any side, is really not very hard.
Here are just half a dozen examples.
A protest against Sharon’s disastrous disengagement from Gaza.
Israeli police estimated that 120,000 people filled Rabin Square on Sunday night, brandishing banners denouncing Sharon’s so-called “disengagement” plan.
Protests in favor of turning over Gaza to Hamas and ethnically cleansing its Jewish population.
Israel said yesterday it would intensify its military assault on the Gaza strip, hours after more than 100,000 people rallied in Tel Aviv to demand that Ariel Sharon follow through on his pledge to withdraw Jewish settlers from the territory.
Even Haredim protesting government school regulations could turn out 250,000.
The last haredi protest of a similar size and nature was in 1999, when the community protested against several Supreme Court rulings on religious issues, including a ruling that ended the exemption of haredi yeshiva students from military service. At that rally, some 250,000 members of the community turned out to protest.
A rally demanding Olmert’s resignation topped 100,000.
Housing price protests topped 100,000. So did opposition to withdrawing from the Golan Heights.
Anti-government rallies of 100,000 or more might be a big deal in some places, but they’re common in Israel.
100,000 protesters in Israel is no big deal.
Anyone telling you this is an unprecedented public rejection of the government that, by the way, won the recent elections, is lying to you.
And most of the media’s lies depend on fooling people who don’t know a whole lot about Israel.
Probably just political theater put on by the left.
If what you say about the proposed legislation is true then you have a fair point, however your previous GDS infection makes me doubt you.
The judicial reforms would create checks and balances which don’t currently exist.
Israel’s High Court is able to take any case it likes without concern for standing, can issue any verdict it likes without having to be confined by a higher standard like a constitution, and even controls the makeup of the court.
That gives it omnipotent power.
I wouldn’t want the Supreme Court to have powers like that. No sane person would.
For those interested, the Wall Street Journal has a good summary of what’s at stake.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/israel-supreme-court-revokes-appointment-aryeh-deri-cabinet-minister-benjamin-netanyahu-11674230927
“Israel’s Supreme Court has more power than America’s but without the democratic checks. Unbound by any constitution, and loosed from requirements of standing and justiciability, Israel’s court strikes down laws that it finds merely “unreasonable,” which can cover most anything. Israel’s court even has a veto on the appointment of new justices, in contrast to the U.S. where the President and Senate share the appointment power.”
And from Minister Bezalel Smotrich
https://www.wsj.com/articles/israels-new-government-isnt-what-youve-heard-free-market-religious-exercise-democracy-judicial-reform-eu-11672172820
Our emphasis on judicial reform is meant to bring Israel closer to the American political model with some limited checks to ensure the judicial system respects the law. We seek to appoint judges in Israel in a process similar to America’s; to define the attorney general’s scope of authority and relation to elected representatives in a manner similar to what’s set down in America; to develop effective oversight mechanisms for law enforcement to ensure they protect basic rights; and to restore the Knesset’s authority to define the fundamental values of the state and its emerging constitution.
I like Netanyahu. He’s handsome and has a very manly voice. And wasn’t he part of the raid on Entebbe?
Israeli left is no different than American or European left. It always exaggerates facts when benefit them. And dismisses and downplays any true fact that exposes their hypocrisy and misrepresentation. Israel’s judiciary reform has been overdue for a long time. In some point in the past even Israeli left was in favor of reform. Unfortunately Israel’s SC acquired too much undeserved power. It must be brought down to its proper place.
you have it exactly opposite. why do you post here anyway?
my reply was to Mr Mickhorn, btw
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Peace will never be achieved in this world while listening to fairy tails even though I believe in there being a creator. In most literature, there is an amount of God’s honest truth in what is real and what the creator wanted to achieve in the scriptures. Those found in caves and jars and massive Archaeological digs the world over. What man thinks gets written down and believed by those like all of us with free will and a logical mind. There is always going to be a different way of thinking because man is an explorer in all aspects of life. If it is medicine Ornithology Physics or anything else come to that. We are going the wrong way for any kind of peace, this has been shown from time immemorial. The strong defeat the weak or the rich defeat the lesser rich. We have to become one with each other. We have to be controlled because there are powers that are not seen pulling the strings to catastrophe for man. The needs of the many can outway the need of the few, even when the few are right. Peace can only be obtained by LOVE and respect and understanding of all people’s views. sharing all good things with each other and only discussing the facts, not the fairy tales passed down from close-minded Ancestors. You can bypass the truth if you disbelieve the fact. Man started in Africa in one land called PANGAEA. Stay where you are and make friends.
I believe in a God to fear if that’s your sort of fairy tail Maybe you believe you’ve accomplished some sort of state beyond fear. This state might be called peace.
Fairy *tale* as opposed to